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The best chef in the world could be Italian. Our 12 finalists at The Best Chef Awards – Italian Cuisine

Among the 100 finalists of Best Chef Awards a beautiful team of Italian talents. Who are they and what's new this year

Also this year it is time to look for the best chef in the world. And just look at the list of the top 100 finalists to understand that it won't be easy. To give us good hope, the second position of Italy in terms of number of presences: second only to France and followed by neighboring Spain. Waiting for the big award ceremony to be held on University of Barcelona, we just have to cheer and why not finally participate in the vote.

Our finalists

The Italian chefs named among the best 100 in the world are: Massimiliano Alajmo, Andrea Aprea, Enrico Bartolini, Massimo Bottura, Enrico Crippa, Antonio Guida, Norbert Niederkofler, Davide Oldani, Floriano Pellegrino, Christian Puglisi, Niko Romito and Mauro Uliassi.

The new entries to watch

The first five finalists of last year are confirmed: Joan Roca (Spain), Rene Redzepi (Denmark), David Muñoz (Spain), Björn Frantzén (Sweden) and Jonnie Boer (Netherlands), but also the names of those who entered the 2019 stand out. Victor Arguinzoniz, Eduard Xatruch, Oriol Castro and Mateu Casañas from Spain; from the United States: David Chang and Kyle Connaughton; from France: Adeline Grattard e Guy Savoy; from Japan: Zaiyu Hasegawa, Hiroyasu Kawate e Seiji Yamamoto from the United Kingdom: Paul Cunningham; from Russia: Anatoly Kazakow; from Peru: Pia Leon and Mitsuharu "Micha" Tsumura; from Mexico: Edgar Núñez and Daniela Soto-Innes.

Why and how to vote

This year, a jury of industry experts will nominate the Best Chef, but for the 2019 edition a new special prize has been established: the Best Chef Fol-LOVERS Award. From August 1 the community that follows the awarding is called to intervene and nominate his favorite. To participate, just connect to the site The Best Chef Awards and express your preference. This is the right occasion to have our say on the most famous chefs in the world!

The hills of Prosecco di Conegliano and Valdobbiadene are UNESCO World Heritage Sites – Italian Cuisine

The UNESCO World Assembly has recognized the beauty and importance of one of the most important Italian wine territories

"The daring descents and the ascents sang Lucio Battisti. And it is an image that adapts perfectly to the hills of Prosecco di Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, declared yesterday as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, "To be protected and protected for the uniqueness of the landscape cultural reads in the motivation.
A landscape profoundly forged by man, which for centuries has cultivated the vine on inaccessible slopes, where work is carried out exclusively by hand and costs time and effort.

The process of the candidacy, concluded yesterday with the proclamation in Baku during the meeting of the Unesco world assembly, is lasted ten years and saw the commitment of the governor of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia and of the winemakers of the denomination Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore. However, there is no wonder of this important recognition: just think that the first road of Italian wine was created in this very area in 1966: fifty kilometers long, it connects Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, passing through some of the most beautiful villages in Italy, abbeys and monuments of the first order.

The landscape of the Prosecco di Conegliano and Valdobbiadene hills is the 55th Italian site registered in the UNESCO list and the 10th in the world in the "cultural landscape" category; the only similar in Italy is that of Langhe, Roero and Monferrato.

This is the best restaurant in the world in 2019 – Italian Cuisine

The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2019: the ranking of the best restaurants in the world

After an hour of suspense orchestrated with the consummate skill of a well-proven award, the verdict of the 1040 international voters crowned the Mirazur of Mauro Colagreco in Mentone, in front of an audience of 1200 invited to this year a Singapore and euphoric at the right point in the setting of Marina Bay Sands, the hotel with which Singapore has entered the number of cities with the most futuristic skyscrapers in the world.

Who is Mauro Colagreco?

43 years old, born in La Plata, Argentina, grandparents from Abruzzo, Mauro Colagreco, built his technique at the school of Alain Passard and Alain Ducasse, two of the most extraordinary chefs in contemporary France, and then developed his personal style in ten years of work. The adjective that best defines his kitchen is, perhaps, Mediterranean because it comes from the products of the Riviera: crunchy vegetables, fish, wild herbs, with curious forays into the Italian province such as the use of Parmesan or the bagna caoda sauce.

The best restaurant in the world

His climb to the top was fast, constant and partly unexpected: fourth in 2017, third in 2018, and now Best of the World. It has also brought some satisfaction to the Italian public, because Colagreco is a little Italian and loves it. From this year the winner will not have to fear descents in the future rankings, because the first of the class have entered the category of Best of the Best, that is, they have become, literally, champion, or a panel that will not be submitted to the vote of the judges.

The ranking

In second place the Noma 2.0, the new adventure of René Redzepi: the chef who baptized the 50BEST repeatedly, closed to "find inspiration" and reopened last year in a new place and with a menu structured according to the seasonality of local products.

Quinto, to confirm the genius of Nordic cuisine, which has become a gastronomic destination in a few years, the Geranium of Copenhagen. In fourth place Gaggan, in Bangkok, an Indian-Thai who has created a synthesis of extraordinary modernity between Indian and Thai cuisine.

Strong Spain in third place with the big one asador Extebarri, magician of the grid (also in the sense that he makes them build according to what he puts on the fire), in Atxonda; to which are added the Mugaritz in San Sebastian earning a well-deserved seventh place, e disfrutar to Barcelona. The beautifully hybrid cuisine of South America comes along with the Central of Lima in sixth place e Maido, from Lima to the tenth.

It's Italy?

After the exploit of Massimo Bottura last year, a disappointing placement, all in the "back" and downhill: Piazza Duomo, in Alba, at 29 compared to 16 in 2018; Le Calandre, in Rubano (Padua), which fell from 23 to 31; the Real Castel di Sangro descends from 36 to 51; Uliassi, fresh three Michelin stars in Senigallia at 61. A round of applause a Lido 84, 78th, but crowned by the special prize One to watch, to keep an eye on. For the rest, we wonder why a kitchen that is now considered by all among the best in the world, has disappointed us.